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A Model of corporate donations to open source under hardware–software complementarity
Di Gaetano, Luigi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In recent years there has been an increasing diffusion of open source projects, as well as an increasing interest among scholars on the topic. Open source software (OSS) is developed by communities of programmers and users, usually sponsored by private firms; OSS is available in the public...
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Modelos open source y responsabilidad social
García-García, Jesús; Magdaleno, Alonso de; Isabel, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Because open source assets are developed collectively, there is no single source for cost estimates of how much it has taken to develop the technology. There is a great value on open source delopments (OSD), but current legal framework for financial reporting doesn’t allow to report on them...
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Deadly Contests An economic note on al Qaeda’s reward system
Caruso, Raul; Locatelli, Andrea - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
The aim of this brief paper is to interpret al Qaeda’s modus operandi in the light of the economic theory of contests. The main idea expressed here is that al Qaeda can be considered as a contest-designer rewarding an indivisible prize. Affiliated groups compete with each other to win the...
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Firms on SourceForge
Eilhard, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper explores empirically what factors influence a firm’s decision to contribute and to take leadership in open source projects. Increasing firms’ participation in the development of open source software (OSS) is generally perceived as a puzzle. Assuming that firms face a...
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Consumer welfare and market structure in a model of competition between open source and proprietary software
Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
I consider a Vickrey-Salop model of spatial product differentiation with quasi-linear utility functions and contrast two modes of production, the proprietary model where entrepreneurs sell software to the users, and the open source model where users participate in software development. I show...
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Open Source Licensing in Mixed Markets, or Why Open Source Software Does Not Succeed
Gaudeul, Alexia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The rivalry between developers of open source and proprietary software encourages open source developers to court users and respond to their needs. If the open source developer wants to promote her own open source standard and solutions, she may choose liberal license terms such as those of the...
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Show me the code: Spatial analysis and open source
Rey, S.J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper considers the intersection of academic spatial analysis with the open source revolution. Its basic premise is that the potential for cross-fertilization between the two is rich, yet some misperceptions about these two communities pose challenges to realizing these opportunities. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617027
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The creation of internet communities: A brief history of on-line distribution of working papers through NEP, 1998-2010
Batiz-Lazo, Bernardo; Krichel, Thomas - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper adds to the growing literature on the formation of online communities from an historical perspective by telling of the emergence and development of a service for speedy, online distribution of recent additions to the broad literatures on economics and related areas called NEP: New...
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Impact of Economic Crisis on Innovation Behaviour of Industrial Firms In Russia
Kuznetsov, Boris - 2013
The paper focuses on empirical analysis of major factors that determine innovation activities of Russian manufacturing … innovation activity of a firm, including structural characteristics (size, industry, etc.), competitive environment (intensity of … competition and type of main competitors), changes in financial position of a firm, it's pre-crisis performance and innovation …
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Fostering Innovation in Russian Companies in the Post-Crisis Period : Opportunities and Constraints
Simachev, Yuri - 2013
In recent years the Russian innovation policy has made a significant progress that manifests in developing its ‘tool … kit', increasing resource base, etc. However it has not yet succeeded in improving business innovation activities that … Russian industrial enterprises the authors analyze key features of innovation in Russian companies under economic recovery, as …
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